This document provides an overview of Amazon GameLift, a managed game hosting service. It discusses how GameLift can help developers build and manage dedicated game servers at scale through features like automatic scaling of server capacity based on player demand, matchmaking to balance latency and utilization, and integration with game development tools. The document outlines how to integrate a game's server and client components with GameLift and use its management console to monitor performance. It also presents examples of how GameLift reduces costs through efficient use of server resources and provides a global infrastructure to improve player experience.

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David Holmes, Head of Product,
GameLift
Amazon GameLift
Simple, fast, cost-effective dedicated
game server hosting
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2. 본 강연에서 다룰 내용
• Service Overview
• Key Value Propositions
• Auto-Scaling
• Matchmaking Queues
• Future Directions

3. Building a service to
manage dedicated
servers is hard.

4. Building a service that can
scale to your success, and is
reliable, secure, affordable and
operationally manageable, is
really hard.

5. Most Prevalent
GameLift Integration
Architecture

6. • Server Management
• Auto-Scaling
• Pay As You Go

7. Auto-Scaling Can Cut Your Costs In Half
Typical multiplayer games use only 50% of their peak
server capacity on average.
This means that half of the time their game servers have
no active players.
GameLift’s auto-scaling feature automatically turns off
game servers when they are not needed and adds new
game servers when more players arrive.

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10. Integrate the
GameLift Server SDK

11. Integrate the GameLift Server SDK
• Integrate the GameLift Server SDK into your game server
• The GameLift Server SDK is available in C++ and C#, so it can be
used with Amazon Lumberyard, Unreal Engine, Unity, and custom
developed C++ and C# game engines
• We also have an Unreal plugin to simplify integration into your
Unreal Engine game server
• We offer both Windows Server 2012 or Amazon Linux as server
operating systems
• Pre-built support in Lumberyard

12. Upload Your Game Server Build to each Region
US West (Oregon)
Game Server Build
EU Central (Frankfurt)
Game Server Build
South America East (São Paulo)
Game Server Build
Asia Pacific (Seoul)
Game Server Build

13. Create a Fleet for your Build in each Region
US West (Oregon)
Fleet
Asia Pacific (Seoul)
Fleet
Game Server Build
Game Server Build

14. Define Auto-Scaling Rules for each Fleet
US West (Oregon)
Fleet
Game Server Build Auto-Scaling Rules
Asia Pacific (Seoul)
Fleet
Game Server Build Auto-Scaling Rules
Using the GameLift
management console or
AWS CLI, you can
configure the service to
automatically scale fleet
capacity based on fleet
metrics like available
player sessions and idle
instances.

15. Auto-Scaling will Scale Instances Up & Down
US West (Oregon)
Fleet
Instance Instance Instance
Asia Pacific (Seoul)
Fleet
Instance Instance Instance
Auto-scaling can start
one, hundreds, or even
thousands of instances
simultaneously and stop
unused instances in just
minutes.

16. The GameLift
management console
includes dashboards for
monitoring the
performance of your
game. You can see real-
time data on player
demand, server capacity
and health, and CPU and
memory utilization.
GameLift also lets you
automatically collect and
store game server logs for
retrieval and inspection.
Real-Time Insights

17. • Matchmaking Queues
• Global Reach

18. Matchmaking Enables You To Balance Latency & Utilization
Match
Player 1
Ping
Times
Player X
Ping
Times
…
GameLift
US West (Oregon)
EU Central (Frankfurt)
South America East (São Paulo)
Asia Pacific (Seoul)

19. Global Reach Enables Low-Latency Player Experiences
US West (Oregon)
Japan
Ireland
US East (Virginia)
Coming Soon
Brazil
Germany
India
Singapore
Korea
Coming Soon

20. Integrate the
GameLift Client API

21. Integrate the GameLift Client API
• Integrate the GameLift Client API into your backend game
services (e.g. matchmaking)
• The GameLift Client API is contained within the AWS SDK
• The AWS SDK is available in over 10 languages, including C++,
Java, .NET(C#), and Python
• Pre-built support in Lumberyard

22. Create a Game Session Queue
Fleet - US West (Oregon)
Fleet - South America East (São Paulo)
Fleet - EU Central (Frankfurt)
Fleet - Asia Pacific (Seoul)
Game Session Queue

23. Each Time your Matchmaking Service wants to
Create a Match for a Set of Players…

24. 1. Make a Game Session Placement Request
Game Session Queue
StartGameSessionPlacement()
Placement Request
Player 1
Ping
Times
Player X
Ping
Times
…
Placement Request
Player 1
Ping
Times
Player Y
Ping
Times
…
Placement Request
Player 1
Ping
Times
Player N
Ping
Times
…
Your
Matchmaking
Service
GameLift
Your Game
Client #1
Your Game
Client #N
…
Fleet
Fleet
Fleet
Fleet

25. 2. GameLift Finds the Best Fleet to Place the Match
Fleet - Asia Pacific (Seoul)
Instance
Your Game
Server
Your Game
Server
Your Game
Server
Instance
Your Game
Server
Your Game
Server
Your Game
Server
Take advantage of auto-scaling to automatically scale fleet capacity based on queue-specific fleet metrics like
average player wait time and queue depth.

26. 3. GameLift Returns Server IP Address & Port
Your
Matchmaking
Service
IP Address & Port
GameLift
Fleet - Asia Pacific (Seoul)
Instance
Your Game
Server
Your Game
Server
Your Game
Server
Instance
Your Game
Server
Your Game
Server
Your Game
Server
Your Game
Client #1
Your Game
Client #N
…

27. 4. Game Clients Talks Directly to the Game Server
Your
Matchmaking
Service
IP Address & Port
GameLift
Fleet - Asia Pacific (Seoul)
Instance
Your Game
Server
Your Game
Server
Your Game
Server
Instance
Your Game
Server
Your Game
Server
Your Game
Server
Your Game
Client #1
Your Game
Client #N
…

28. Latency Added By GameLift
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29. • DDoS Protection
• Reliable Infrastructure
• High-Performance Instances

30. What Game Developers Are Saying About GameLift
“Now that Amazon GameLift is available for all game engines, we’re excited about its
potential to help us deliver the lightning-fast, seamless online multiplayer experiences our
fans demand.” - Neil Johnson, Technical Director at Gearbox Software.
“For the team at Proletariat, the choice was pretty simple – hire a team of engineers to
spend months building our own cloud infrastructure, or launch our game on Amazon
GameLift in a couple of days. Amazon GameLift made it easy for us to inexpensively give
our fans world-class online experiences.” - Seth Sivak, CEO of Proletariat.
“Amazon GameLift is helping AON develop fast, stable multiplayer experiences for our
players on mobile devices in any region of the world, with incredibly low latency. Amazon
GameLift’s ability to smartly match players and instantly scale capacity will help AON give
our players the best possible experience, while saving us time and money.” - BR Choi,
CEO of AON Interactive.

31. Selection of Live Games
And others…
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/gamedev/streamline-case-study-amazon-gamelift/

32. Where could GameLift
go from here?

33. Universe of Managed Game ServicesSOCIAL
Player Profiles
Friends
Engagement
Player Privacy
Search
Player Presence
AUTH
Identity
Skill & Rank
Session Management
Matchmaking
MULTIPLAYER
Parties
Notifications
Rank
COMMUNICATION
Text Chat
Voice Chat
P L A Y E R
A N A L Y T I C S
D E P L O Y M E N T
Ingestion
Release
Packaging
R E M O T E C O N F I G
A / B T E S T I N G
W E B S I T E S
C S T O O L S
C O M M E R C E
Wallet
Item Catalog
Virtual Currencies
In-App Purchase
Reputation
Auto-scaling
Authentication
Authorization
GAMELIFT
SERVER HOSTING

34. 본 강연이 끝난 후…
Try GameLift For Free
As part of the AWS Free Tier, you can get started with Amazon GameLift for
free. Upon sign-up, new AWS customers receive the following benefits each
month for one year:
• 125 hours per month of GameLift c3.large.gamelift instance usage, plus
50 GB EBS General Purpose (SSD) storage
• 15 GB per month of bandwidth out, aggregated across all AWS services

35. Thank you!
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